Family Rights Group is facilitating a sector-led Care Crisis Review which: • is examining the reasons for the record number of care order applications and high numbers of children in care; • aims to identify specific changes that can safely reduce the number of care cases coming before the family co...

Hello everyone. Just to let you know FRG's availability over the Christmas period. The office, advice line and digital advice service will close at 3pm on Friday, 22nd December. The discussion boards will be moderated on 27th - 29th December. No posts will be answered during this time. The office an...

Hi everyone, I apologise for the fact that occasionally spammers get onto this forum and post unsuitable material. Whilst I and all the moderators try very hard to keep this forum free of spam it is inevitable that sometimes these spammers slip through the net. I have since deleted 'SusanLug' from o...

Family Rights Group’s online advice service includes the information available on our website (for example, answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and our Advice Sheets) as well as information shared via our discussion boards. We are gathering the views of parents about how helpful they have f...

Our discussion boards are a space for users to provide support for each other. Our advisers will also give legal and practical advice where this is requested by a user. We have written some rules to help make sure that the discussion board stays safe, friendly and respectful. Rules of use 1.Before y...

We are devastated to have to inform you that Bridget Lindley, Family Rights Group’s Deputy Chief Executive & Principal Legal Adviser and our wonderful, brilliant, beautiful colleague and friend, died suddenly earlier this week. Family Rights Group and Bridget’s family are still reeling from the ...

Hello all We have been asked by our funders (the department of Education) to collect extra information about the people we support and advise. This is so that they can assess who the advice service is reaching and how helpful people find us. We're therefore asking if users of the discussion boards w...

Family Rights Group's website and forums may be down today July 4th, 3pm (BST) for a short while. We hope to carry out some major updates to the underlying software. I apologise for the downtime in the last few days.